Quotes from Allan Stratton

Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.

Life doesn't make sense. It's against the law for somebody to steal your bike but apparently it doesn't matter if somebody tries to steal your best friend. Well you can always get a new bike. But how do you replace a best friend

Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest.

why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

I like writing teen characters because they're vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

Trees are like people. We're alive, then we're memories, then we're not even that.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

May the Lord bless thee and keep thee. May the Lord be gracious unto thee. May the Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

Life is a storybook. Our stories depend on what happens and what doesn't; what we know and what we don't; what we forget and why. That's what makes telling the truth so tricky. Because the past never stays still: it keeps changing into the future.

Don't have time for memories, too busy making them

Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.